Book Two · A rhyming picture book · Ages 4–8
and the Doors of Orangeness
Born of a single golden mandarin, one small hero must escape door after door, prison after prison — and discover the one power that can never be caged: the power of friends.
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High on a sunlit hill, a single bright mandarin trembles, glows, and leaps to the ground — and Mikanman is born, brimming with juice, courage and light. He blows bubbles of gold to catch villains, sails an enchanted castle of feelings, and meets the tiny, mighty Babu-chan. But when his shadowy twin, Evil Mikanman, returns with a skeleton-skull belt and a clever lie, our hero is locked away — door after door, prison after prison. Through fog and fear, through the darklands themselves, he learns the one secret no cage can hold: the power of friends. Told in playful rhyme and drawn entirely by hand.
A cheerful round mandarin hero with a cape, a fist full of light and a heart full of juice.
His shadowy twin — bruised-orange, sneering, and wearing a belt with a skeleton-skull buckle.
The tiniest Mikan of all — a seed of a thing with the mightiest zing and an enormous, determined grin.
A few pages from Mikanman's journey. The full 20-page rhyming adventure is in the book — and the first six pages are yours to read free.
He blew shining bubbles, round, sticky and bold, and trapped every villain in spheres of gold.
Then BEAM met BEAM in a blinding white roar — two citrus storms that the heavens tore.
There in the hush, a faint orange seam — a door, like a slice of a half-remembered dream.
A great Tower of Power that blazed like the sun — and they punched with a CRACK, and the bad twin was done.
For the best thing in life is the friends that you know… but deep in the forest, strange sparks ignite.